Hello folks,
So as the topic says our player has pulled out of his position as LA Man in Frolicking Fledglings, over here:
http://z7.invisionfree.com/Dom3mods/...?showtopic=307.
Perminant position since he is having long term family trouble, but that also means this isn't a case of pulling out because you are loosing...
Man has been Turtling away most of the game, and has a small core empire that is very highly developed and 100% crenelated (castle'd). There's another small guy (Atlantis) that has been raviged by war, but the other 4 players are all significantly larger than man, and around the same size as each other. None of us has felt like touching Man with a 10 foot pole all game, though, what with the castles.
Couple turns ago the late game hit in earnest. Caelum put up the nexus, and then proceeded to get gang-banged. Even though he doesn't border Caelum, Man joined the gang-bang enthusiastically. So now Man has a core territory and a second decent chunk of territory which is completely discontinuous with his main empire.
Finally this turn Bogarus put up astral corruption, and it seems to have taken the Nexus down. We have yet to see if this will change the gang-bang dynamics, since it looks like Caelum is past the point of recovery. We also don't know if this death-global will last longer than the last one. I know that Man has bootstrapped blood, so the corruption is a bit less crippling for that.
If you are interested drop me a PM, or post on the other board. You don't really need an account on Dom3mods, but they are simple enough to get.